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For people like me, I think it is more about, 'When do people give you an opportunity?' rather than you deciding about when you want to make a debut. If I had a chance, I would have come as a child artist in this industry.
Harshvardhan Rane
Me
You
People
Opportunity
Think
Would
About
Give
Rather
More
Had
Come
Like
Make
Industry
Debut
Than
Child
Artist
Want
Deciding
Chance
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
Writing
Despair
Perfect
Like
Just
Thing
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.
Haruki Murakami
People
Made
Become
Arrogant
Club
Jazz
Books
Writer
Like
Read
Intelligent
Just
Want
Happened
Sandwiches
Used
Who
Cocktails
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami
Time
Age
Remember
Old
Wind
Smell
Air
Everything
Machine
Vividly
About
Write
Feel
Days
Like
Return
Jump
Very
Actually
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami
Me
Book
Old
Will
Three
Finished
Before
Live
Please
Books
One Book
Able
Write
Takes
Like
Know
Until
How
Am
Years
Praying
Die
Many
Each
Now
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
Haruki Murakami
You
Sports
Partner
Own
Speed
Easier
Running
Find
Something
My Own
Tennis
Pick
Particular
Like
Go
Up
Trainers
Just
Place
Team
Team Sports
Pair
Thing
Need
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
Music
Books
Like
Read
Listen
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
Time
Will
Living
Think
Society
Would
Some
About
Write
Outside
Since
Come
Like
Am
America
Often
Whether
While
Japanese
Asked
Next
Novel
Set
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.
Haruki Murakami
Work
People
Feelings
Isolation
Own
Young
Difficult
Think
Independent
Would
More
Support
Like
Readers
Very
Young People
Reason
Many
Suffer
Why
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki Murakami
War
Good
History
Writing
Try
Every
Those
Kind
About
Something
Write
Writer
He
Feel
Like
Because
His
Describe
Technique
Thing
Things
Necessary
I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Own
Live
System
Independent
Easy
My Own
Since
Like
Been
Any
Graduated
Japan
Company
Utterly
Belonged
As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
Haruki Murakami
Life
Time
My Life
Long
Important
Become
Year
Down
Older
Complete
Though
Possible
Has-Been
Would
Slowing
Per
My Time
Part
Like
Important Part
Been
Very
Get
Really
Marathon
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
Harvey Cushing
Work
Day
Surgeon
Somebody
Somewhere
Would
Would-Be
See
Had
Part
Like
Operative
Least
Hands
Who
Appointed
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Harvey Fierstein
Noise
Think
Percent
Voice
Like
Average
Actually
Tone
I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Harvey Fierstein
Politics
Rule
Something
Put
Like
Spotlight
Just
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Harvey Gantt
Education
Me
Folk
John
John Edwards
Excelled
Like
His
Get
Just
Worked
Working
Hard
She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.
Harvey Keitel
Time
You
One Time
Followed
Had
Idea
Like
She
Make
Talking
Advise
Said
Always
Offered
Being
Choice
Now
Her
Hercules
Here
That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.
Harvey Keitel
Made
Shoes
Too
He
Like
Asking
Many
Pairs
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.
Harvey Mackay
Life
You
Yourself
Better
Job
Life Is A
Others
More
Higher
Along
Town
Like
Self-Esteem
Spot
Accomplish
Account
Get
Grade
May
Your
Team
Series
Largest
Competing
Competitions
Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.
Harvey Mackay
Success
Day
You
Every Day
Remember
Will
Entitled
Mistakes
Every
Earn
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Like
Make
Anything
Your
I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.
Harvey Martin
Took
Head
Like
Felt
Quarterback
Off
Many
Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.
Harvey Martin
Me
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Like
Supposed
Always
Been
Person
Acting
Thing
The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.
Harvey Pekar
Work
Respect
Down
Way
Paper
Memorize
Able
Some
Pretty
Seem
Write
Head
Stuff
Over
Suppose
Like
Well
Although
Got
Improvisation
Listen
After
Conversations
Them
Then
Things
Copy
Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.
Harvey Pekar
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Like
Different
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Harvey Pekar
People
Assuming
All People
Write
Attend
Con
Prose
Like
Comic
Comic-Con
Lot
Same
Common
Really
Who
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Harvey Pekar
Work
Book
Typical
Write
Stuff
Like
Looks
Content
Comic
Comic Book
Autobiographical
Form
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